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A 21-year-old woman has appeared in court charged with attempting to import drugs worth an estimated £700,000 into Northern Ireland, according to police.
The National Crime Agency said Xaena Bursey-Duff from Calgary, Canada was detained by officers on Saturday evening after Border Force staff at Belfast City Airport seized 36 kilos of cannabis from baggage that had arrived on a flight from London Heathrow.
Bursey-Duff was questioned after being transferred off a flight from Calgary in London and charged with importing controlled drugs and supplying controlled drugs, the NCA said.
At a hearing at Belfast Magistrates on Monday, she was remanded in custody until her next hearing at the same court on September 16.
The NCA released an image of around a dozen evidence bags containing the seized cannabis.
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